Surely in this day and age the RAF Club should be for all the RAF, but no (according to comments on this site) you can serve a Short Commission and have life time membership but if you serve a life time in the Service and retire at 55, thanks - good bye and don't darken the RAF Clubs door step!
I don't know all the rules and regulations but is it true that you can join the UAS and never the real RAF but get a potential life time membership of the RAF Club- this can't be true surely?
On a serious side if the RAF Club is looking for support open its self up to the whole RAF!